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Studies on utilization of subliminal stimuli in the formation of manifest dream content indicate that perception is related to drives, wishes, and primary thought processes and as an ego function is not exclusively concerned with adaptation and reality testing. Sensory impressions, conscious and preconscious, are the raw material utilized in translating dream thoughts into images. Freud emphasized the importance of indifferent impressions in dream construction. The author investigates the respective effects of simultaneous subliminal and supraliminal stimuli in the dream. Two such stimuli (highly charged sexual symbols) were exposed to eleven subjects, after which they drew and described what they had seen. The